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This new volume of the works of Mary Butts - the fourth in the McPherson series - encompasses the full range of Mary Butts's talents. For the first time in more than 60 years comes her brilliant first novel (Ashe of Rings), an epistolary novella (Imaginary Letters), two essays (Traps for Unbelievers and Warning to Hikers), and "Ghosties and Ghoulies" on supernatural fiction. Ashe of Rings was written during the First World War when Butts was in her mid-twenties. Serialized in The Little Review in 1921, it was published in 1925 by Robert McAlmon's famous Contact Press. The Rings of the title are Badbury Rings, a set of concentric prehistoric earthworks in South Dorset. Echoing the Rings with its three-part structure, Ashe of Rings powerfully renders the social trauma of First World War London, and evokes an occult dimension through which the actions of the characters reverberate. Imaginary Letters is a 60-page novel in letters; it is also a lyrical prose poem, evoking all the qualities, faults and mysteries of Russia through the eyes of a disappointed lover in Paris of the 1920s. Warning to Hikers and Traps for Unbelievers first appeared in 1932. Each was way ahead of its time, and remains relevant today, directly addressing the respective needs (1) for preserving the land, and (2) for retaining some sort of spirituality amid the pressures of modern life. "Ghosties and Ghoulies" is a study of the uses of the supernatural in fiction, ranging from Shakespeare to M.R. James, from Paracelsus to May Sinclair, from Thomas the Rhymer to E.M. Forster, touring the short stories, songs, poems and "ghost-anthologies" from Britain and beyond. This was a subject of passionate interest to Mary Butts, and an area of literature to which she contributed several notably original examples.
This new volume of the works of Mary Butts - the fourth in the McPherson series - encompasses the full range of Mary Butts's talents. For the first time in more than 60 years comes her brilliant first novel (Ashe of Rings), an epistolary novella (Imaginary Letters), two essays (Traps for Unbelievers and Warning to Hikers), and "Ghosties and Ghoulies" on supernatural fiction. Ashe of Rings was written during the First World War when Butts was in her mid-twenties. Serialized in The Little Review in 1921, it was published in 1925 by Robert McAlmon's famous Contact Press. The Rings of the title are Badbury Rings, a set of concentric prehistoric earthworks in South Dorset. Echoing the Rings with its three-part structure, Ashe of Rings powerfully renders the social trauma of First World War London, and evokes an occult dimension through which the actions of the characters reverberate. Imaginary Letters is a 60-page novel in letters; it is also a lyrical prose poem, evoking all the qualities, faults and mysteries of Russia through the eyes of a disappointed lover in Paris of the 1920s. Warning to Hikers and Traps for Unbelievers first appeared in 1932. Each was way ahead of its time, and remains relevant today, directly addressing the respective needs (1) for preserving the land, and (2) for retaining some sort of spirituality amid the pressures of modern life. "Ghosties and Ghoulies" is a study of the uses of the supernatural in fiction, ranging from Shakespeare to M.R. James, from Paracelsus to May Sinclair, from Thomas the Rhymer to E.M. Forster, touring the short stories, songs, poems and "ghost-anthologies" from Britain and beyond. This was a subject of passionate interest to Mary Butts, and an area of literature to which she contributed several notably original examples.
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